South Dakota · Private foundation
Comfort Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $405k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Comfort Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $405k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $913k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Outdoors Foundation | $1,000,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Animal Rescue League of Iowa Inc | $180,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Iowa Community Action Association | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Paws and Effect | $77,000 | 7 | 27% |
| Aheinz57 Pet Rescue & Transport Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Berry College Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Outdoors Foundation | $1,000,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Animal Rescue League of Iowa Inc | $180,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Iowa Community Action Association | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Paws and Effect | $77,000 | 7 | 27% |
| Aheinz57 Pet Rescue & Transport Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Berry College Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hospice of Central Iowa Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Comfort Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Comfort Family Foundation
- How much does Comfort Family Foundation give?
- Comfort Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $404,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Comfort Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (73%), Environment (13%), Animals (7%).
- Who are Comfort Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Great Outdoors Foundation ($1.0M), Food Bank of Iowa ($190k), Animal Rescue League of Iowa Inc ($180k).
- Does Comfort Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Comfort Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Comfort Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Comfort Family Foundation based?
- Comfort Family Foundation is based in SD.
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